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cream pie

/(ˈ)kɹiːm ˈpaɪ/

cream pie noun: a pie, usually filled with fruit, topped with whipped cream. Also the alternative form of creampie.

cream pie: a pie, usually filled with fruit, topped with whipped cream
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Noun

cream pie (countable and uncountable, plural cream pies)

  1. (US) A pie, usually filled with fruit, topped with whipped cream.
    • The young men and women slinging plate lunches and mammoth slices of cream pie on the tables recall the energetic waitresses from the good old days.1993, Michael Wallis, Way Down Yonder in the Indian Nation: Writings from America’s Heartland, New York, N.Y.: St. Martin’s Press, →ISBN, page 44
  2. A pie filled entirely with cream, used as a prop in slapstick films and television.
  3. A cookie (dessert) consisting of two soft cookies (especially oatmeal cookies) with a layer of creamy or marshmallowy filling in the middle.
    • The best thing about cream pie cookies? You have permission to eat two cookies instead of one, since it takes two to make a proper sandwich. But now there's a new problem: limiting yourself to just one cream pie. Peanut Butter Oatmeal Cream Pies[…] To make the cookies, […] To make the filling, […]...2013 July 10, Bianca Phillips, Cookin' Crunk: Eating Vegan in The Dirty South, Book Publishing Company, →ISBN
    • ASSEMBLE THE CREAM PIES: Place about 1 to 2 tablespoons of filling on the underside of one cookie and top with an additional cookie.2013 October 8, Monica Holland, Lick the Bowl Good: Classic Home-Style Desserts with a Twist, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN

Also used as

cream pie is also the alternative form of creampie.

Forms of cream pie

pluralcream pies
alternative formcreampie

Questions about cream pie

What does cream pie mean?
Cream pie means a pie, usually filled with fruit, topped with whipped cream.
What part of speech is cream pie?
Cream pie is a noun.
How do you pronounce cream pie?
Cream pie is pronounced /(ˈ)kɹiːm ˈpaɪ/.
What is the plural of cream pie?
The plural of cream pie is cream pies.

Words near cream pie in the dictionary

  1. cream of the valley
  2. cream of wheat
  3. cream off
  4. cream one's jeans
  5. cream one's pants
  6. cream pie
  7. cream pies
  8. cream puff
  9. cream puff piece
  10. cream puff pieces
  11. cream puffs

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